Philadelphia-based saxophonist Odean Pope was presented with the BNY Mellon Jazz 2017 Living Legacy...
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One hundred years ago, in the autumn of 1912, an African-American musician by the...
Craft Recordings, the Catalog Division of Concord Music, is releasing a limited-edition box set...
W.C. Handy, often referred to as the Father of the Blues, first published “St....
For nearly two decades, flautist-composer-improviser Jamie Baum has produced stunning and wide-ranging music with...
The Hammond organ’s surging popularity in the 1950s had everything to do with economics...
Ella Fitzgerald’s story is that of a black Cinderella, an American storybook career –...
In March 1963, guitarist Kenny Burrell was at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in New...
Pianist Fred Hersch has long been recognized as an extraordinary interpreter of the Thelonious...
7748Before Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott, Big John Patton, Jimmy McGriff, Brother Jack McDuff, Groove...
The great blues artists talked, the savviest rockers listened. Without the blues there’d be...
Before musicians had illegal downloads to complain about, the pioneering blues artists faced even...
